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	Bahá'í Faith Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...zrá 'Alí Mohammed of Shíráz, originally a Shí'ite Muslim, in present-day Iran. He declared...the ire of the country's predominant Shí'ite Muslim religious establishment and their...
	Mahdi Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...For Islam, the term developed through medieval Shi ʿ ite thought into a concept charged with genealogical, eschatological...Islamic Messianism: The Idea of Mahd ī in Twelver Sh ī ʿ ism. Albany: State University of New...

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	al-Shāfiʿi, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions al-Shāfiʿi, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad (d. 820 (AH 204)). Founder of the Shāfiʿite school of Muslim law ( sharīʿa ). He was taught...
	Bektāshīy(y)a Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Bektāshīy(y)a. Turkish Derwish order, originating in about the...Bektash Vali, but very little is known of him. They are Shiʿite in so far as they acknowledge the Twelve Imāms, but different...
	Niʿmat Allāh Walī, Shāh Nūr al-Dīn Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Niʿmat Allāh Walī, Shāh Nūr al-Dīn ( c. 1331...x16B;fī order, one of the few Shiʿite Muslim orders which has had a continuing history. He was dissatisfied...
	Mullā Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Shīrāzi Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...x12B;n Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Shīrāzi (known as Mullā Ṣ...x2013;1640 (AH 979–1050)). Shiʿite philosopher. During his life, there was contest between those...
	‘Abbāsids Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...combined led to an uprising with strong Persian and Shīʿite elements, and the Umayyads were ousted, nearly all...century. The Fāṭimids in Egypt, a Shīʿa dynasty, took power in 909...
	Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl (Shīʿite Imam): see ISMĀʿĪLIYA .
	Schools of Law, Muslim Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...x2BF;a readily applicable; (iii) Shāfiʿite ( Muḥammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī...discouraged. There is also a number of Shīʿa schools, though...
	Muḥāsibī Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Muḥāsibī (Shāfiʿite theologian): see AL-MUḤĀSIBĪ .
	al-Muḥāsibī (‘he who examines his conscience’), Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ḥārith Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...Abd Allāh Ḥārith ( c. 781–857 (AH 165–243)). Shāfiʿite theologian who turned to ascetic renunciation and moral purification, and is regarded as the first Sunni mystic...
	Sharīʿa Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...applies to the four classic schools , Ḥanafite , Ḥanbalite , Mālikite , and Shāfiʿite . They are rooted in Qurʾān and ḥadīth , the sunna of the Prophet...

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	Sneh: Iran trying to buy Sh'ite support Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 3/8/1995; ; 515 words ; DAVID RUDGE Jerusalem Post 03-08-1995 IRAN is spending around $100 million a year in an effort to "buy" the hearts and minds of Lebanese Shi'ites, Health Minister Ephraim Sneh declared yesterday during a visit to the security zone. Sneh, a former commander of the IDF's Lebanese liaison unit,
	IRAQI VOTE COUNT SO FAR SHOWS CLERIC-BACKED SHI'ITE LIST IN LEAD Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/4/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...including Baghdad and five heavily Shi'ite areas in the south, showed overwhelming...support of Iraq's most senior Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani...was shut down across the country. Sh'ite parties have called for a harsher crackdown...
	Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam Newspaper article from: Domes; 10/31/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Cole focuses on three areas of Shi'ite activity: the Arab world, Iran, and...Pakistani-speaking, and Urdu-speaking Sh'ites. The book encompasses 11 chapters...example, the economic position of Shi'ite clerics at the shrine cities of Najaf...
	Barzani's Image Improved - His Background. Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy; 8/10/2009; 700+ words ; ...Kirkuk. In 2007, Maleki and his Shi'ite Arab allies toyed with the idea of...SIIC) which has been the main Shi'ite Arab partner in the Baghdad government...blocs of the secular Iyad Allawi, Sh'ite Muqtada al-Sadr and Sunni Iraqi Accordance...
	Shi'ism in South Asia Magazine article from: The Muslim World; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...rather, the history of Shi ite Islam in India has been marked...To appreciate South Asian Sh-ism it is necessary first...the defining moment in Shf ite history: the battle of Karbala...the suffering endured by Sh-ite saints. And because of their...
	Crucial to keep to one Iraq Newspaper article from: China Daily; 9/3/2005; 577 words ; ...Iraqis, on the one hand, and Shi'ite and Kurdish Iraqis, on the other...objections of Sunni leaders, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders have decided to...formidable majority of the legislature, Sh'ite and Kurdish leaders will get their...
	Saddam's family on most-wanted list Newspaper article from: China Daily; 7/3/2006; 700+ words ; ...the deadliest attack since a Shi'ite-led unity government was formed six...100 injured. The blast in the Shi'ite militia stronghold of Sadr City drew...responses from radical Shi'ites against Sh'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's...
	The daughters of Iraq; New-age Iraqi women are determined to help 'take back their neighbourhoods', and now ask for guns, writes Alexandra Zavis.(News) Newspaper article from: The Star (South Africa); 6/10/2008; 700+ words ; ...in Sunni enclave surrounded by Shi'ite Muslim neighbours, would like to assign...But when the bombing of a revered Sh'ite shrine in Samarra unleashed revenge...pulled over one day by gunmen in a Shi'ite neighbourhood. Five days later his...
	It's a make-or-break year for Iraq Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 4/7/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...leading Sunni Ghazi al-Yawer and Sh'ite Adel Abdul al-Mahdi, marked a tremendous...support among Iraq's majority Shi'ite community especially in the South and...controlled by fundamentalist Shi'ite militias whose members are heavily...
	Iran, US may meet at Iraqi conference Newspaper article from: China Daily; 4/30/2007; 600 words ; ...and government". US officials accuse Shi'ite Iran of training and supplying weapons to Shi'ite militias in Iraq, a charge Teheran denies...between Iraq and Iran, both predominantly Sh'ite countries, have improved since the fall of...